Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cats.org.uk

Cats Protection | UK’s Largest Cat Welfare Charity

Page Load Speed

15 sec in total

First Response

704 ms

Resources Loaded

12.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

cats.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cats.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Cats best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cats.org.uk

We are the UK's leading cat charity. We help an average of 157,000 cats and kittens every year - with your support we can help even more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cats.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 704 ms and then it took 14.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cats.org.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cats.org.uk

704 ms

CatsProtection.css

398 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

180 ms

fb-buttons.css

162 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Cats.org.uk, 5% (8 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (7 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (53%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Cats.org.uk main page is 3.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 521.1 kB

  • Original 606.4 kB
  • After minification 596.9 kB
  • After compression 85.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 521.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 976.6 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Cats images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 481.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 102.9 kB

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 32.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Cats.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (75%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cats.org.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cats.org.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cats.org.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cats.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cats.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cats. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: